Public health and preventive medicine Books

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429285912, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This innovative book addresses the question of...

Larry Dossey forever changed our understanding of the healing process with his phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Healing Words. Now the man considered on of the pioneers of mind/body medicine provides the scientific and medical proof that the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medizin und Gesundheit, Note: 1,0, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In den Sozialwissenschaften bezeichnet man die Analyse der sozial bedingten ungleichen Gesundheitszustände als...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Gesundheit - Public Health, Note: 2,3, Hochschule Osnabrück, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit beantwortet die Frage nach Möglichkeiten und Erfolgsfaktoren einer effektiven...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Gesundheit - Public Health, Note: 2,0, Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Begriff Stress ist im alltäglichen Sprachgebrauch bereits tief verankert. Es scheint, als wenn kaum...

Le Brandy et le SelL'Ultime Médicament?Brandy - une boisson alcoolisée consommée par de nombreux. Mais est-il plus que juste une boisson ? Il l'est surement!Avec de nombreux avantages pour la santé y compris des propriétés anti-inflammatoires,...

Liberty is under assault. All over the world, in response to the hyped-up COVID-19 pandemic, authoritarian measures were imposed by power-hungry statists and faceless bureaucrats. As this book shows, these measures have little to do with protecting...

In this value-based healthcare era, governments, insurers, and healthcare organizations are under increasing pressure to address the various healthcare challenges and simultaneously meet these five goals: reduce total healthcare costs, improve the...

Highly commended in the Public Health category, BMA Medical Awards 2010There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change. This is the first book to set out what health practitioners can do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, to...

The Terrible Story of The Great Influenza,  the 20th Century's Deadliest Pandemic!Have you ever heard of the great influenza of 1918?Do you want to know how the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century started and ended? If you have these and...

Contemporary Dutch policy and legislation facilitate the use of high quality, accessible and affordable assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) to all citizens in need of them, while at the same time setting some strict boundaries on their use in daily...

Get rid of Anemia, Vitamin B12 deficiency, and Protein deficiency with Eat So What! The Power of Vegetarianism.Whether you are vegetarian since birth or practicing vegetarianism for health issues or a non-vegetarian, Eat So What! The Power of...

In this potent work, 100 Herbs of Power, John E. Smith describes the rich, colorful history and traditional uses of medicinal herbs from numerous cultures around the globe. He outlines the potential of these powerful herbs in a world where science often...

The "Godfather of Vaccines", Stanley A Plotkin, is the world-renowned American physician who works as a consultant to vaccine manufacturers, such as Sanofi Pasteur, as well as biotechnology firms, non-profits and governments. In the 1960s, he played a...

Short Bowel Syndrome: Practical Approach to Management is the first reference exclusively about the issues experienced by patients with a short bowel. It covers all aspects of normal and abnormal physiology, the presenting features, and outcomes,...

For many people, losing weight is much more than just cutting calories and increasing exercise. The age old theory of weight loss being no more than calories in versus calories out has been disproved by the masses. Weight loss resistance is becoming more...

Integrative Weight Management: A Guide for Clinicians intends to educate physicians and nutritionists about the wide ranges of approaches to weight control from non-traditional sources. The options for weight management in...

This book addresses the complexity of preventing, diagnosing, and treating musculoskeletal pain and disability disorders in the workplace. Divided evenly between common occupational pain disorders, conceptual and methodological issues, and evidence-based...

Sugar consumption is suspected to play an important role in the pathogenesis of diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, fatty liver disease, and some forms of cancers. Dietary sugars-fructose in particular-also have a potential role in obesity and metabolic...

The detection and/or isolation and identification of pathogenic microorganisms is critical for the laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases. With growth-dependant methods providing reliable means for identifying pathogens, traditional culturing...

Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials for Predictive Medicine provides statistical guidance on conducting clinical trials for predictive medicine. It covers statistical topics relevant to the main clinical research phases for developing molecular...

The public has a great desire for products that prevent the annoyance of biting insects and ticks, but that desire does not always translate into sensible use of those products. Insect Repellents Handbook, Second Edition summarizes evidence-based...

​​ While it is well established that the worldwide pandemic of overweight and obesity has profound effects on promoting cancer, it is now recognized that an alternative aspect of energy balance, namely physical activity and exercise have significant...

The HIV pandemic continues to levy a heavy burden on the human race world-wide. The estimated number of people who became newly infected with HIV in 2009 was 2.6 million; most of these individuals live in Sub-Saharan Africa, followed by India and...

The purpose of this book is to place computer simulation studies within the paradigm of intervention research that is concerned with comparing the outcomes of health care delivered under different policies. This book presents computer simulation as a...

Asian Americans encounter a range of health issues often unknown to the American public, policy makers, researchers and even clinicians. National research often combines Asian Americans into a single category, not taking into account the differences and...

Introduction.- Theories of Organizational Change Approaches.- Determining the Evidence Base for Addiction Treatment Programs.- Technology Transfer Process and Models.- Current State of the Corrections Field.- Current State of the Addiction Treatment...

The papers ofthis Special Issue of Molecular and Cellular Nutraceuticals are also known as 'health foods' but they also Biochemistry are invited, peer-reviewed submissions from include any product derived from animal or plant...

This book is a compilation of presentations at the first meeting devoted to the mo­ lecular and cellular biology of copper transport. When we first considered the possible program for the meeting, we felt that a forum to...

PCBs have captured the attention of scientists, journalists and the public for three decades, but during most of that time attention was focused on a small number of the 209 possible chlorobiphenyls. Recent work has...

Nations around the world are experiencing a spectacular increase in longevity. Society as a whole is being challenged by issues arising from this revolution in longevity. Although the specter of the loneliness and ...

Critical Appraisal of Medical Literature provides a step-by-step approach to help the reader reach a good level of proficiency in systematic critical appraisal of medical information. To this end, the book covers all the...

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the theories, methods and approaches for reducing HIV-associated risk behaviors. It represents the first single source of information about HIV prevention research in developed...

This book examines the toxicological and health implications of environmental epigenetics and provides knowledge through an interdisciplinary approach. Included in this volume are chapters outlining various environmental risk factors such as phthalates...

This book on Infectious Disease Informatics (IDI) and biosurveillance is intended to provide an integrated view of the current state of the art, identify technical and policy challenges and opportunities, and promote cross-disciplinary research that...

Popular Surgery: Being Plain Directions Offered To The Public At Large (1836) is a medical book written by Mathias Louis Mayor. The book provides a comprehensive guide to surgical procedures that were commonly performed during the 19th century. It is...

The Habitation In Relation To Health: Manuals Of Health (1879) is a book written by Francis S. B. Francois De Chaumont. The book focuses on the relationship between health and the environment in which people live. It provides practical advice on how to...

Notes On Some Of The More Common Diseases In Queensland: In Relation To Atmospheric Conditions, 1887-1891 is a book written by David Hardie in 1893. The book is a comprehensive study of the diseases prevalent in Queensland during the period of 1887-1891...

On Artificial Disinfection As A Means Of Preventing The Spread Of Infectious Diseases is a book written by J. H. Timins in 1878. The book discusses the use of artificial disinfection as a method of preventing the spread of infectious diseases. The author...

Michael P. Richards and Jean-Jacques Hublin The study of hominin diets, and especially how they have (primates, modern humans), (2) faunal and plant studies, (3) evolved throughout time, has long been a core research ...

The American Journal of School Hygiene V1: January-December, 1917 is a book edited by Lawrence Augustus Averill. It is a collection of articles and research papers on various aspects of school hygiene, including topics such as the spread of disease in...

The book ""Principles of Sanitary Science and the Public Health: With Special Reference to the Causation and Prevention of Infectious Diseases"" was written by William Thompson Sedgwick in 1902. It is a comprehensive guide to the principles of public...

Das Buch ""Der Tabak und seine Einwirkung auf den menschlichen Organismus"" wurde 1894 von Ludwig Jankau verfasst. In diesem Werk besch�����ftigt sich der Autor mit den Auswirkungen des Tabakkonsums auf den menschlichen K������rper. Dabei geht er sowohl...

Der Rathgeber in der Behandlung der Fehler der Milch und Butter (1890) von Otto Kohnke ist ein Buch, das sich mit der Herstellung von Milch und Butter befasst. Es beschreibt die verschiedenen Fehler, die bei der Herstellung auftreten k������nnen, und...

Globally, natural medicine has been considered as an important alternative to modern allopathic medicine. Although natural medicines are popular in society, only limited medicinal herbs have been scientifically evaluated for their potential in medical...